Category: Emel Peksöz

• Girls Just Want to Have Freedom

  December 5, 2025

  

  “Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers,…

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• Love is a Bitch! and Other Lessons in Love

  October 10, 2025

  

  At the start of September, I went to my first Monday lecture of the new academic year. I was met with the bold declaration that love is, in fact, a bitch. Our lecturer, the terrific Dutch scholar Margriet van Heesch, did not sugarcoat her words. She might have even saltcoated them. Her message was clear:…

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